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REGULATIONS 



GOVERNMENT 



Gettysburg National Park 



GETTYSBURG PA. 



1895 



REGULATIONS 



GOVERNMENT 

OF THE 

S. Gettysburg National Park - 

GETTYSBURG PA. 
1895 



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REGULATIONS 



1 Employes of the Commission must be at all 
times courteous to visitors. Authorized guides will 
supply themselves with badges, which will be worn 
on the outside of the coat. None but those duly 
appointed to act as guides will be permitted to charge 
visitors a fee for serving in that capacity, and then 
only at a rate fixed by the Commission and approved 
by the Secretary of War. 

11 Visitors are expected to be orderly. All persons 
are by law prohibited from cutting, breaking or injur- 
ing any tree or plant on the property of the United 
States. They are also prohibited by law from destroy- 
ing, mutilating, defacing or injuring any monument, 
tablet, work of art or other decoration ; removing or 
marking stones, stakes, fencing, building or other ap- 
purtenances. Fast driving within the Park is prohib- 
ited. Offenders will be taken before the nearest justice 
of the peace, to be proceeded against as provided for 
in Section 7 of the Act approved February 11, 1895. 

Ill Camping-parties are forbidden without permission 
of the U.S. Commission, and then only upon such 
part of the lands as they may approve. Such parties 
will be held responsible for forest fires or other dam- 
ages caused by them. 



1 V The hunting, fishing, netting or trapping of game, 
birds or fish is forbidden within the limits of the Park. 

V Visitors are invited to report to the Commission 
in writing any incivility or neglect on the part of guides 
and employes. 

V 1 Cattle, horses and swine will not be permitted to 
roam at large on the grounds or along the roads. 
Loose animals will be impounded, and released only 
on the payment of a suitable fine. 

V 1 1 No person other than authorized employes, except 
as hereinafter provided, will be permitted to reside 
permanently or to engage in any business within the 
Park, except by authority of the Secretary of War. 
Employes of the Park are not to engage in any other 
occupation, such as farming, gardening, merchandise 
or o f her private business, except by authority of the 
U.S. Commission. 

V 111 No drinking-saloon or bar-room or gambling es- 
tablishment will be permitted within the limits of the 
Park. 

iJ\. Advertisements or private notices may not be 
posted or displayed within the Park or along the ap- 
proaches thereto, over which jurisdiction has been 
ceded to the United States. 



X. "That if any person shall destroy, mutilate, deface, 
injure or remove, except by permission of the Secre- 
tary of War, any column, statue, memorial structure, 
or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the 
grounds of the Park by lawful authority, or shall de- 
stroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure or other 
work for the protection or ornament of said Park or 
any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, 
break down, or otherwise injure ar.y tree, bush or 
shrubbery that may be growing upon said Park, or 
shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle 
relic, tree or trees, growing or being upon said Park, 
or hunt within the limits of the Park, or shall remove 
or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other 
defences or shelter or any part thereof constructed by 
the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the land 
or approaches to the Park, or shall violate any regula- 
tion made and published by the Secretary of War for 
the government of visitors within the limits of said 
Park; any person so offending and found guilty 
thereof, before any justice of the peace of the county 
in which the off-nce may be committed, shall, for each 
and every such offence, forfeit and pay a fine, in the 
discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation 
of the offence, of not less than five nor more than 
five hundred dollars, one-half for the use of the Park 
and the other half to the informer, to be enforced 
and recovered before such justice in like manner as 
debts of like nature are now by law recoverable in the 
county where the offence may be committed." 

Act approved February u, iSgj. 



J\. i Leases to such present owners of the land as may 
desire to remain thereon, or to other persons deemed 
suitable, will be made annually during the month of 
December for the year ensuing, and upon the condi- 
tion "that they will preserve the present buildings 
and roads, and the present outlines of field and forest, 
and that they will only cut trees or underbrush under 
such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, and 
that they will assist in caring for and protecting all 
tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as 
may from time to time be erected by proper authority." 
All other leases than to "present owners" will be 
made annually, for the ensuing year, during the month 
of December, and to the highest bidder, the United 
States reserving the right to reject any or all bids. 
All rentals shall be payable for the entire year and in 
advance. Lessees who conduct themselves in a man- 
ner obnoxious to the United States authority will be 
removed, and their leases cancelled. 

JOHN P. NICHOLSON 
WM. M. ROBBINS 
CHAS. A. RICHARDSON 

Commissioners 



Approved 

DANIEL S. LAMONT 

Secretary of War 



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